Artist and friend John Adair just sent DK news about his photo show, which opens Friday here in Capitol Hill:
In 1995 Nintendo released what, by any measure, remains to this day the worst camera ever made. A cartridge for the original Gameboy, the Gameboy Camera takes pictures in four “colors” (if you can call white, black, light gray & dark gray colors) at an astonishing 0.009 mega-pixels.
John calls the Gameboy camera “the most reductive imaging device ever made.”
He’ll be putting up a large collection of images as a mural, building patterns you can see from different distances using luminosity as a scale to base where to “map” areas of “color.”
At least that’s how I understood it when we checked out a preview of the show, a mini-sample of patched photos, on his wall.
Two Bit Shadows collects 774 snapshots. Watch for the collection through the end of May.–DK
Two Bit Shadows
Photographs by John Adair
Opens Friday, April 18 :: 7to 9pm
@ Wall of Sound
315 E. Pine St.
Capitol Hill, Seattle
WOSound.com/Events
Also see:
Game Boy Camera, or Pocket Camera in Japan, on Wikipedia
More photos from John at his Flickr page
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